Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that John Adams, Ken Agee and Ron Redburn rented a little house on 24th Street and began an international dating service called A Foreign Affair, a.k.a. loveme.com They ran ads in Russian newspapers asking women to send photos and vital statistics, and several weeks later their website debuted with 300 Russian princesses. Today they are the Manny, Moe and Jack of love. They have profiles of 6,500 women from 49 countries, dozens of clients have married, and they've hired six more employees in Phoenix and 20 in Russia. "It just took off," says Adams, whose love connection...
PAUL MACCREADY In 1977 one of MacCready's creations, the Gossamer Condor, a kitelike affair powered only by a furiously pedaling cyclist-pilot, flew more than 7 min. Two years later, the Gossamer Albatross, an improved model, was pedaled across the English Channel. In 1981 a pilot took the sun-powered Solar Challenger 163 miles from France to a base in England. No wonder the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1980 named MacCready its Engineer of the Century. In the years since, MacCready has fashioned such marvels as the wing-flapping pterodactyl that flew in the IMAX film...
...Several members of the audience asked the panel to address several issues in current event including abortion and morality in politics, specifically the Clinton-Lewinsky affair...
Several members of the audience asked the panel to address issues in current events including abortion and morality in politics, specifically the Clinton-Lewinsky affair...
...choice as selfish or unthinking makes me suspect there's something more behind the need to make everyone give. Sort of like Secret Santa, where everyone is assigned a gift and recipient but ends up giving boring little gifts to the sole satisfaction of the person coordinating the affair in the first place. No one really considers Secret Santa chotchkes gift, and the person in control feels they did all the giving...